Hi Sieghard. Thanks for your full explanation and yes you are right about the dial Pad coming up correctly whilst in a call as I did it just now although I am not fast enough to put in the numbers as I need to practice as I am not use to tapping twice to enter a number as I use touch typing on my I phone.
I will look at your e-mail slowly to try and picture what you say when I next use Skype on my I phone and there was no difference in what you said as now for some reason the dial pad is showing correctly. Do you know who to contact if I wish to ask if the numbers can be made like the I phone? Thanks in advance. Kawal.On 5 Sep 2012, at 04:45 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Kawal, > > OK, here is a full explanation of the buttons and how to use them after you > initiate a call. I did not include a description of the Contacts tab and the > Call Phones tab as they are mostly self-explanatory. I am not sure where you > see the numbers displayed straight across, any time I use Skype and bring up > the DialPad during a call I get a normal telephone style DialPad. Now, I > think you are in the UK and I do remember something about Anne from France > having this issue although I can’t remember if it was with Skype or the > regular Phone app so I guess this could be something that has to do with the > European region settings, but that’s only speculation. > > After you call your bank and the call has connected, you will have 5 buttons > at the bottom of the screen, from left to right they are: > > Mute > Double tap to mute/unmute the call > > Earpiece > Double tap and just above and in the middle you get “Speakerphone” and > “Earpiece” options. Double tap on Speakerphone and the call will switch to > Speakerphone. At that point the “Earpiece” button in the bottom row is now > called “Speakerphone”. Double tap it again and you can choose “Earpiece” > above to switch back to the earpiece. > Please note that if you use a headset when you start the call the “Earpiece” > button is called “Headset” and your options above after double tapping it are > “Speakerphone” and “Headset”. > > Dialpad > This will pull up a typical phone style DialPad with 1, 2, 3 at the top, 4, > 5, 6 below, 7, 8m 9 below that and * 0 and # which in Skype is called “Hash” > at the very bottom. > I can’t remember if the DialPad that comes up when you are in a call used to > have the letters on it, but if it did they are now gone. However, they are > still there on the main DialPad which comes up when you double tap on the > “Call Phones” tab. If, for example, you find the “2” and then slide down a > tiny bit you will hear “ABC” before you get to the 5. > Now, only thing to keep in mind is that the Skype DialPad does not work with > the touch typing method so you do have to double tap or split tab on the > numbers to dial them. > But I did just test this to make sure nothing has changed, I called my > Mastercard toll free number, I could easily enter “1” for English and then my > 16-digit card number. I find split tapping here works better as it’s a bit > faster. Now on to the next button: > > Show Options > This button brings up some options above, “Show Messages” and “Show All > Messages”. > However, I noticed just today that if you slide your finger up from the “Show > Messages” or flick left, Voiceover announces the call duration, then the name > of the contact or phone number you dialed and right at the very top or where > you can’t flick left any further there is also a “Show Dialpad” button which > will bring up the Dialpad. It is, of course, easier to just double tap on the > “Dialpad” button, but it’s there. > If you double tap “Show Messages”, the call window disappears and you are > placed in the messages tab and see all messages related to whoever you are > currently calling. If it is a Skype Out number, you would just see all call > start/end times and call durations. If it is a Skype contact and you > exchanged text messages, you would see those as well. > If you double tap on the “Show All Messages” button the active call window > disappears and you are placed in the main Messages tab where all your > contacts are listed with whom you exchanged messages or placed calls. You can > double tab on any of them to see all the details. > At the bottom you have 4 tabs, from left to right they are: > > Contacts > This displays all your contacts > > Messages > This will show as “selected” and of course displays all your messages > > Active Call > This will take you back to your active call window where you get back your > initial options and can hang up. If you are not in a call this tab is called > “Call Phones” > > My Info > Here you can change your Avatar, sign out, type a mood message, see/change > your status, go into your profile, see how much Skype credit you have, see > the status of your Skype number if you have one and the same for voice > messages and call forwarding. At the bottom is the “About Skype” which > displays version information. > > OK, now back to the last button on the very bottom right of the active call > window: > > End Call > As the name indicates, this will hang up the call. > > A few final remarks: If you are calling a Skype contact there is no DialPad > button, but the first button on the left is now “Video”. The other 4 buttons > are still there, but “Mute” is now second from the left, “Earpiece/Headset is > now in the middle right above the Home key where the Dialpad button is for a > regular phone call and “Show Options” and “End Call” are the same. > If you start a voice call you can double tap the “Video” button on the very > bottom left and start the camera. Skype will use the front camera (facing > you) by default, but once video is going you can double tap the “Video” > button again and above and in the middle you then have 2 options and those > are “Back Camera:” which will switch the video feed to the higher quality > back camera and “No Camera” which will stop video and go back to a simple > voice call. If you ever want to show somebody something switching to the back > camera would be the way to go. > > OK, I hope this helps. Skype had quite a few issues for the longest time, but > it’s awesome now and 100% accessible and in my opinion easy to use. If you do > have to enter numbers using a headset makes it a bit easier although if you > are in a place where you don’t mind using the Speakerphone, it is certainly > easy enough to switch to it. > > > > Regards, > Sieghard > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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